Thoughts for the week

Well, like always — these are just my thoughts. They are some obser­va­tions and my per­cep­tion on the philo­soph­i­cal aspects of Pho­tog­ra­phy. Updated: Ok — i have never gone back and re-edited any of my posts in true tra­di­tion of “pub­lished” means — it is done. Cant change it. This is one excep­tion. I think


Taking it up a notch…

Well, this is not a defin­i­tive guide…but more like a start­ing guide. Of course, this is based on my own expe­ri­ence and such and there­fore like all other things — a work in progress. Ded­i­ca­tion: Well, this sounds obvi­ous, but is very impor­tant. Pho­tog­ra­phy takes a lot of time not just to take pic­tures, but


Seamless backgrounds

Well, this post is about seam­less back­grounds and how to cre­ate them. Below is an exam­ple of where i have used this recently. Note: Not all the mate­r­ial in this post is mine — so i have added ref­er­ences where rel­e­vant: I have a setup sim­i­lar to Zack Arias — minus the white tile board.


Yay! 100,000 hits!

Thanks to you all — I have passed 100,000 page views on this blog recently!


Information overload!

This past week has been too much for me to han­dle in terms of new prod­uct announce­ments (Pho­tok­ina, Upcom­ing Pho­to­plus etc) With the econ­omy going south, it makes me won­der — who is buy­ing these things and how are they able to afford it any­more? Do ama­teur pho­tog­ra­phers need backup SLR cam­eras and pow­er­ful P&S


Lessons from Mistakes…

Like every­one else — i make my share of mis­takes. By cap­tur­ing them — and pos­si­bly re-visiting them later, i hope to learn from not mak­ing the same ones. So, this would be more like the “Thoughts of the week” series — where i will doc­u­ment my mis­takes as i make them…or as i remem­ber them…


Thoughts for the week

What do you do if some­one asks you to explain your image? As an artist, how do you explain your image? When i first saw Edward Weston’s Pep­per #33, to me, it was every­thing else but “a pep­per”. It was sen­sual and moody. In fact, the absence of color made no dif­fer­ence to the fact